IFA Promotion launches B2B hotline & web service to put businesses in touch with local IFAs
Call the new Business Hotline on 0800 085 3251 or
visit www.unbiased.co.uk
IFA Promotion, the organisation promoting the benefits of independent financial advice, has launched a new hotline and website service to put businesses in touch with local independent financial advice. Firms using the service will receive comprehensive information on several local IFA firms with expertise in giving corporate advice. Alternatively they can request IFAs focusing on one of the following areas of financial planning:
- Group pension/ Stakeholder
- Group protection/ life insurance
- Commercial mortgages
In addition, callers or web users can specify the size of their business (in terms of employees), helping to match the right level of corporate advice to each firm's financial needs.
David Elms of IFA Promotion said, "With last week's launch of Stakeholder pensions set to affect nearly 400,000 businesses, more firms than ever will be looking for help with planning their finances. Our new hotline and online services put companies in contact with local independent advisers, who can help sort out their financial affairs, saving them time, money and worry."
Firms looking for local independent financial advice should call the IFA
Promotion Business Hotline on 0800 085 3251, or visit www.unbiased.co.uk
For further information please contact:
| Douglas Claisse Marketing Director IFA Promotion 020 7833 3131/ 07803 603 659 | or | Richard Winder/ Shellie Wells Lansons Communications 020 7490 8828 |
Notes to Editors
1. Independent Financial Adviser Promotion
Independent Financial Adviser Promotion Ltd. was established in 1989 to promote the value and accessibility of independent financial advice to the public. It represents over 9,000 registered individual independent financial advisers across the UK and is sponsored by 31 leading financial institutions. In 2000, over 130,000 people contacted IFA Promotion for details of local independent financial advisers.
IFA Promotion's central belief is:
"Consumers have a right to financial advice that is independent of the providers of financial products - i.e. independent financial advice."
Furthermore independent financial advice should be:
- Affordable. The option to take independent financial advice should be available, by right, to all - not just the wealthiest in society.
- Convenient. IFA should be available in the location of the consumer's choice, wherever they live in the UK.
- Transparent. It must be clearly transparent to consumers who is able to offer independent financial advice and who is not.
2. Independent Financial Adviser Promotion's sponsors
| Barclays Global Investors Funds BUPA Canada Life Clerical Medical Investment Group Dresdner RCM Funds (UK) Ltd. Eagle Star Family Assurance Friendly Society Ltd Friends Provident INVESCO Fund Managers Ltd Investec Asset Management Legal & General Merrill Lynch Investment Managers National Mutual National Savings Norwich Union Life | Prudential Intermediary Division Scottish Amicable Life Plc Scottish Equitable Plc Scottish Life Assurance Company Scottish Mutual Assurance Plc Scottish Provident Institution Scottish Widows plc Standard Life Assurance Company Sun Life Swiss Life (UK) plc The Skandia Group of Companies Tunbridge Wells Equitable Friendly Society UNUM Ltd Winterthur Life UK Ltd Zurich Life Assurance Company |